Thursday, July 7, 2016

Paris strives to break his earth image hostile to finance – The World

the most parade chic of Paris did not take place at Fashion week but in a forum of bankers. Wednesday, July 6, Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, the finance minister, Michel Sapin, the president of the Ile-de-France, Valérie Pécresse (LR), and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo (PS) came lend a hand instead of Paris.

“We want Paris become the premier financial center of Europe” has hammered Mr. Valls, at the International Forum Paris Europlace, the lobby of the Paris. “All the French players, local authorities, state, chambers of commerce, companies, we must be united,” asked M me Hidalgo.

“This is the first time a Prime Minister has personally carry the word of the state with the financial community,” noted Gérard Mestrallet, Chairman of Engie and Paris Europlace . Certainly, France, successive governments, left and right, have not ceased to mark that distance themselves from the world “evil” of the bank. Nobody would have imagined that public support manifests one day, which is more than four years after the speech Bourget, on 22 January 2012, the candidate Francois Hollande launched his diatribe “my enemy is finance “.

Attract the troops of the City

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